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Cattle ranch next to a recently deforested area in Candeias do Jamari, Rondônia, Brazil. Photo courtesy of Victor Moriyama / Amazônia em Chamas (Amazon in Flames Alliance).

Traceability is no silver bullet for reducing deforestation (commentary)

Erasmus zu Ermgassen 12 Apr 2024
Women carrying saplings.

New online tool is first to track funding to Indigenous, local and Afro-descendant communities

Sonam Lama Hyolmo 11 Apr 2024

As fires ravaged Indonesia in 2023, some positive trends emerged, data show

Hans Nicholas Jong 9 Apr 2024
Satellite image of wildfires in Quebec, Canada, in June, 2023.

Tropical forest loss puts 2030 zero-deforestation target further out of reach

Hans Nicholas Jong 4 Apr 2024
Wood pellets for biomass energy. Image courtesy of Dogwood Alliance.

Enviva bankruptcy fallout ripples through biomass industry, U.S. and EU

Justin Catanoso 2 Apr 2024
A Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) hangs from the trees. Fewer than 100,000 orangutans remain on Borneo. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

Report links pulpwood estate clearing Bornean orangutan habitat to RGE Group

Hans Nicholas Jong 27 Mar 2024
Cows in a farm with trees.

New U.S. agroforestry project will pay farmers to expand ‘climate-smart’ acres

Sarah Derouin 25 Mar 2024
Tea pickers in Kenya.

Climate change brews trouble for tea industry, but circular solutions await

Sean Mowbray 14 Mar 2024
People during a severe heat wave that struck Brazil in late 2023.

Study on Brazilian heat wave deaths shows gender & racial disparities

Michael Esquer 6 Mar 2024
Mekong River

Hydropower in doubt as climate impacts Mekong Basin water availability

Carolyn Cowan 21 Feb 2024
Flood victims in north-central Bangladesh in 2019.

As climate disasters claim their children, Bangladeshi mothers seek safety in bigger families

Mahadi Al Hasnat 16 Feb 2024

No sea change on marine policy from candidates as Indonesia heads to polls

Basten Gokkon 13 Feb 2024
A lemon shark in the mangroves in the Bahamas.

Ocean heating breaks record, again, with disastrous outcomes for the planet

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 Jan 2024
Army officers try to extinguish fires in peatland areas in Central Kalimantan.

2023 fires increase fivefold in Indonesia amid El Niño

Hans Nicholas Jong 10 Jan 2024
Activists protesting at Glencore's coal mining site in Cerrejón, Colombia.

Reports allege abuses by Glencore in Peru and Colombia, and the banks funding them

Aimee Gabay 27 Dec 2023
Attendees from Brazil pose during the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 at Expo City Dubai on December 5, 2023, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Image by COP28 / Mahmoud Khaled via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Deed).

Little achieved for Indigenous groups at U.N. climate summit, delegates say

Dimitri Selibas 19 Dec 2023
Sunrise over mangroves in Australia.

Did the tides turn for oceans at COP28? Climate summit draws mixed reviews

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 14 Dec 2023
Three pileated gibbon (Hylobates pileatus).

New tool aims to make nature-based solutions projects in SE Asia a better sell

Hans Nicholas Jong 13 Dec 2023
Melting ice.

Earth on ‘devastating trajectory’ to global tipping points. But there’s hope.

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 12 Dec 2023
Journalists and activists in May, 2017, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Fifth from left in the front is activist Hoang Thi Minh Hong.

NGOs at COP28 demand Vietnam free climate advocates before it gets energy funding

Alec Luhn 8 Dec 2023

Indigenous groups rebuke court OK for palm oil company to raze Papua forests

Hans Nicholas Jong 7 Dec 2023
Thailand flood, 2011

Thailand tries nature-based water management to adapt to climate change

Carolyn Cowan 7 Dec 2023

Indonesia pushes carbon-intensive ‘false solutions’ in its energy transition

Hans Nicholas Jong 5 Dec 2023

Glencore’s coal expansion plans face shareholder and Indigenous opposition

Mike DiGirolamo 17 Nov 2023
A monster wave at Newhaven, East Sussex, in the UK, during Storm Eunice. Image by StormChaserLiam / Twitter.

Climate change threatens the North Atlantic’s currents, ecosystems and stability (analysis)

Pitamber Kaushik 7 Nov 2023
Muslim communities represent a large percentage of the global population and are greatly impacted by climate change, and therefore deserve seats at important climate change negotiations like COP28. Image courtesy of Memona Hossain.

Muslim community must have a seat for global climate change discourse (commentary)

Memona Hossain 3 Nov 2023
Coral spawning.

Climate refugees? As the sea warms, corals thrive in Japan’s cool waters

Annelise Giseburt 25 Oct 2023

Forest conservation ‘off-track’ to halt deforestation by 2030: New report

John Cannon 24 Oct 2023
Macaws flying over the rainforest.

Mongabay wins prestigious 2023 Biophilia Award for Environmental Communication

Mongabay.com 18 Oct 2023

Indigenous seed collectors grow a network of restoration across Brazil

Kevin Damasio 18 Oct 2023
A trawler Naoned in the European part of North Atlantic Ocean.

Record North Atlantic heat sees phytoplankton decline, fish shift to Arctic

Juliette Portala 12 Oct 2023
Greenpeace activists built a carbon bomb to protest Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage at a protest in Germany. Image courtesy of Karsten Smid / Greenpeace Media Library.

Beyond ‘no,’ more positive visions for conservation need communication (commentary)

Rachael Garrett 12 Oct 2023

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